By IANS
New Delhi : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has formally taken over the probe into the illegal kidney transplant racket, is likely to send a formal request Saturday for kingpin Amit Kumar’s deportation to India from Nepal, officials said.
Amit Kumar, the fugitive kingpin of the illegal kidney trading ring who was arrested in Nepal Thursday night, will be produced in a Kathmandu district court Sunday.
“We would try to send a formal request of Amit’s deportation through Interpol before his production in the Kathmandu court, so as to cut on the time taken to get him to India,” a CBI official said.
“We would seek his deportation before the trial begins in the Kathmandu court or else his deportation will delay indefinitely,” the official added.
A member of the international criminal organisation, Nepal’s police had closed in on the kidney racket mastermind after the Interpol issued a Red Corner notice against Amit Kumar and his brother Jeewan Kumar Feb 1, following the CBI’s request.
Amit Kumar was arrested from a holiday resort in south Nepal and police had announced that they would produce the 43-year-old in a court Sunday, when he would be slapped with the charge of violating Nepal’s Foreign Exchange Regulation Act.
The police in Nepal were probing Amit Kumar alias Santosh Rameshwar Raut’s links to the kidney transplant racket unearthed in Kathmandu last year.
If Amit Kumar was found guilty in these cases he would be sentenced to a maximum of four-year imprisonment.
The CBI Friday booked Amit Kumar, his brother Jeewan and two other accused identified as, Upendra and absconding doctor Saraj Kumar, under various sections of the Human Organs Transplantation Act, 1994.
Under the act the provision is for a maximum imprisonment of four years for the offenders.
The agency official said they had fanned out teams across the country to arrest all other absconding.